So, my neighbor decided she would shock her *very black* above ground 24x52" pool today. Well, she nuked it. She put in <according to her> 5 bags of burnout, 10 gallons of bleach and 2 lbs of BS all at once. All you can smell is chlorine when you walk near it. I took my test kit over and didn't even attempt to use the DPD kit because I knew the chlorine would be out of this world and I'm not gonna waste my supply on it so I used the K-1000 and the sample turned dark brown. I've heard it could turn dark brown but this was the first time I've ever seen it with my own two eyes. Her pH is way over 8.2 and her TA is 100. When I did the TA it went from green to blue to yellow and I counted 10 drops so I figured as long as it changed, it would be accurate. Should I tell her she needs to bring down the pH with some MA or wait til the chlorine disapates? That may take a long time though... I'm not sure. Should I tell her it needs to come down now with the outlandishly high CL? She won't be home tomorrow but I'm going to go back over and test it again with the k-1000. She knows I'm coming over.
I know it's not my pool but this is craziness. I'm just well... speechless other than what I just posted. I'm concerned about that high pH right now and the effects on the liner and or pump. Should I be? Should I even care? Should I just watch her ruin it and to heck with it and hope the walls fall in? Cuz it might be better for the pool... if it weren't being tortured like that...
I know it's not my pool but this is craziness. I'm just well... speechless other than what I just posted. I'm concerned about that high pH right now and the effects on the liner and or pump. Should I be? Should I even care? Should I just watch her ruin it and to heck with it and hope the walls fall in? Cuz it might be better for the pool... if it weren't being tortured like that...